User blog comment:Bluestripe the Wild/Rise of the Mercenaries/@comment-3135907-20110621182214

In the dark of night, a longboat slips up onto the sands of the beach at Akator. A lone beast climbs out, then swiftly disappears up the shore and into the trees. A second later, another creature clambers out and falls into the sands with a squish. The longboat is pushed off, and the four oarsbeasts begin rowing it silently back to the shadowed ship out at sea.